In this extract, Rob talks about the excitement of getting a piece published and how you can use that energy to keep sending your work out.
Author: wanderingbard
EP. 13 | lisa blower on arduous publishing journeys
Lisa Blower had won many prestigious awards for her short stories and yet, the publishing journey for her debut novel, ‘Sitting Ducks’, was a long and strenuous one.
A Photographic memory, by yamuna venugopal
‘After almost a month passed and we had not heard from you, my father asked your mother if he should approach his friends in the police department and look for you. but your mother refused. ‘I know my daughter. she will not come back unless she wants to. she doesn’t want to, yet.’
EP. 12 | yvonne battle-felton on finding the right publisher
Yvonne Battle Felton discusses her publishing experience and the how she found an editor for her first novel, ‘Remembered’.
Ep. 11 | Ellie Moore
I paint a lot of the landscapes that I see as I’m hiking … sometimes it’s the view I get from the summit but other times it’s little tiny details, small landscapes that are kind […]
Ep. 10 | Gary Budden
Whatever the mainstream narrative is, there may be some truth to that narrative but … there are always many other stories running alongside it, or going in opposition to it, and it would be foolish […]
Ep. 9 | Jen Allen and Jay Fortune
One of the reasons we move so much is that we look at the communities … when we moved to Devon, there was a community of creative people there already that we joined and there […]
Ep. 8 | Kirsty Logan
I do use made-up words in my fiction, peppered in amongst the English … for example, ‘gracekeeper’ is not a word … I just thought it sounded nice and had good connections with what I […]
Symbiosis, by Anne Cleasby
Sleet turned to hail as the sky darkened into evening. An occasional streetlight still functioned, flickering with a dull orange glow, but Tiffany was grateful when the last working lamp disappeared behind the car, and […]
From Here, by John McAuliffe
The view from here is the border: the lake, close-up, is vertical. Not so much water as law and order. The word for it might disappear, the road run through its invisible wall. The view […]
THE WANDERING BARD 